on sikkil kidAram

[Guest guest]

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

 

dear bhAgavathAs,

 

I am getting some time after a long time to revisit some of the

pending issues I wanted to address in the list. Please forgive this

spate of emails from me.

 

On July 4,5,6,7 of 2002, a grand celebration and samprOkshaNam was

performed at the shrine of svAmi maNavALa mAmunigaL at sikkil

kidAram. At the time we posted the appeal, we were unaware of any

controversies regarding this! In fact, we were very surprised,

when at a later date, we came to know of a controversy regarding

this, and I personally am deeply disappointed with our people's

handling of this.

 

Since I posted the original appeal, I am dutybound to present the

data to this list.

 

The facts are as follows:

 

1. The organizers feel that sikkil kidAram is the birthplace of svAmi

maNavALa mAmuni.

2. That is not universally shared. Many people believe that AzhvAr

thirunagari is the birthplace of svAmi maNAvALa mAmuni.

3. yatIndra-p-pravaNa prabhAvam does mention AzhvAr thirunagari as

svAmi's birthplace. People who have the view that sikkil kidAram

is the birthplace put forth the following viewpoint - sikkil

kidAram is the place where svAmi maNAvALa mAmuni's mothers' house

was. It is but natural that the son/daugher is born in the mothers'

parents' home. So, sikkil kidAram must have been the birth

place. As far as the yatIndra-p-pravaNa prabhAvam mentioning

AzhvAr thirunagari, their viewpoint is that "AzhvAr thirunagari"

may refer to the entire area - not just the town. They also remind

us that AzhvAr thirunagari was quite dilapidated and only after

srI thiruvAymozhi-p-piLLai went there did the place regain its

glory.

4. yatIndra-p-pravaNa prabhAvam does mention sikkil kidAram as the

place where svAmi maNavALa mAmuni grew up.

5. There are remnants of a house where it is claimed that srI

thiruvAymozhipiLLai taught svAmi maNavALa mAmunigaL and also the

thiru arasu of svAmi kUra kulOththuma dAsar.

6. And, there has been ruins of this temple that was renovated,

and the vigrahams of perumAL/svAmi found amongst the ruins.

People have visited the temple in better days and obviously

the temple had been a place of worship for many of our

elders. The utsavar vigraham for perumAL had been stored in

the vAnamAmalai mutt in srIvillipuththUr, and this temple is

under the administration of the vAnamAmalai mutt.

 

Given the above facts, the least one can conclude is that svAmi

maNavALa mAmunigaL did spend some of his early years at sikkil

kidAram. Coupled with the presence of svAmi kUra kulOththuma dAsar's

thiru arasu, one can conclude with reasonable confidence that svAmi

did learn here.

 

It is beyond me as to why people cannot see beyond these differences

of opinion. Does it matter that there is no 100% proof about the

birthplace? Isn't the fact that there is an undeniable connection

that the place has with svAmi maNAvALa mAmuni enough? But, in our

religion, it looks as if there *has* to be a controversy on

*everything*. If there is nothing, I guess people create one use it

as an excuse to stay away and/or derail the process. Sometimes I

wonder whether we are the current day yAdavAs, ordained by the

Lord to destroy ourselves.

 

Whether the temple needed to be built and/or the samprOkshaNam needed

to have taken place is a differnt question (especially when so many

divya dEsams lack funds). But once it has been built, and a

samprOkshaNam has been arranged, it is a different question.

 

Anyway, the above are the facts surrounding the difference of opinion

regarding the birthplace of svAmi maNavALa mAmuni. If one has the

time in their schedule, while visiting thiru-p-pullAni, one can

visit sikkil kidAram. It is about 40km from thiru-p-ullAni, and town

buses do ply there. svAmi's mUlavar vigraham here is in the standing

pose - very beautiful vigraham. The utsavar is very captivating as

well. Photos of the samprOkshaNam can be seen on the ramanuja

page, photos section and sikkil kidAram samprOkshaNam

folder.

 

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam,

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

Varadhan

[Guest guest]

Dear TA Varadan swami,

 

Adiyen is very very happy that the sikkil kidaram

temple has been renovated. How is that adiyen being

happy for a renovation in some remote temple.Reason is

very simple When adiyen was doing my bachelors degree

in engineering in sriviliputtur college. adiyen used

to do kainkaryams in the manavvalamaamunigal sannidhi

there. one of the kainkaryams is the thirumanjana

kainkaryam to the sikkil kidaram sundarraja perumaal

and sikkil kidaram manavaala maamunigal. The utsavar

vigrahams are there in manavalamamunigal sannithi

still. and am now here in NJ.

 

To says something about that manavaalamamunigal If we

see him in full thiruman kaappu he will be exactly

like nam swamy emperumanaar. very nice archa vigraham.

They said When there was a kalagam the then swamy had

got the archa vigrahams to the manavaalamamunigal

sannidhi and installed it there. one more speciality

si that That sundarraja perumaal has three thayaars

sri boo and neela devi.

 

anyway adiyargal vaazha aranganagar vaazha enthai

ethirajanai prarthanai seithukolkirein.

 

poliga poliga poliga.

 

Adiyen ramanuja dasan,

Narashiman Chakravarthy.

 

 

 

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